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Originally Posted by cheater
Do you think in the future you can try and keep YOUR negativity to your self. Indeed, for you the price may not be right and you may well be able to get 2 meetings for the price of 1 at other clubs but please try to advertise these other clubs you go to in a positive manor and NOT slag off other clubs or Stoke RCMCC in the process.
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Here we go again, with people putting words in my mouth & as for my "being negative", well the club is struggling for numbers - a simple look at the results tables for the last 12 months published on the club website tells the tale & as for the cost aspect, well i simply pointed out that i can now get more tracktime for the same money - so how is that "slagging off the club"
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Originally Posted by sldmodels
I gotta say that one reason I haven't been to Stoke in a while is the price increase. £7.50 for non-members, rumours of some people paying £10 per meet, I simply can't justify that for a club meet.
I still say the Stoke club can be a great club again. The people are all friendly enough, but I got to say that there are some lazy feckers who won't help setup, won't help put away, and it's the usual suspects who end up doing that. I helped when I could, but I have to careful what I do with my diabetes.
If the club joins the badmintion or tennis association, they could instantly get a third off the price of the courts. Then I think you'd just have to have a token match once a year, an open club championship let's say, and you've saved how much per year? I don't know for certain how much membership is, but I think it's either £15 per club or per member, something like that.
Ian, I understand your feelings, and you've told me about some of them, but we need to support all the clubs we can, as we're in real danger of losing them all. I thought Stoke would pick up again after the Macctrack went, but that didn't happen.
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Thank You Sarah, i'm glad someone understands me & for the record i'm all for supporting my local club but at the end of the day if the club is losing money & has to keep putting up the prices i personally think there has to be something more done at committee level other than keep passing the increased costs on & moaning about the clubs problems to the people that are actually still going to the club & paying money - speak with the people who no longer go to the club & ask them why they no longer go, or if the venue is costing too much then change to somewhere cheaper rather than keep putting up with it or at least have a word with Jim Spencer (BRCA treasurer) who is the guru on things like this & may well know a loophole to get the room costs down.
I know it's not much but a little promotion such as posting flyers & posters in model shops or turning up at model shows or even toy fayre's held in the local area would be more positive moves to bring people in as would be a look through the past members in the club records & sending out some information via post or email to tempt people back, even at Crewe the members will occasionally get a text message sent to them from one of the committee to remind people that racing is taking place & a friendly nudge to say they need a hand to put the track out.
It's a shame because potentially RC "should" be absolutely massive in this area. The BRCA AGM is held in the area & within 30 minutes drive there are clubs/tracks that have gone on to hold nationals (10th, 12th & of course 1:8th off-road) & a look at the entry lists on Central Booking of entrants to all the big tournaments reveals a lot of the drivers actually hail from within a 50 mile radius of Stoke on Trent, it's just a shame that Stoke isn't getting the numbers & there isn't a club within 5 miles of my house pulling in big numbers.
... & there you go no negativity on my part, just some constuctive critisism & concerns.